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Tamara Kneese
@tamigraph.bsky.social
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Climate/AI/labor/death researcher in Oakland and at @datasociety.bsky.social. Luddite

I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/

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Let’s check in on The New York Post to see how they’re handling the Epstein news
NY Post headline about restaurant owner leaving NYC because of Mamdani
November 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Ketan Joshi on the environmental toll of Meta’s genAI advertising product newrepublic.com/article/2028...
Now Meta’s decision to go all in on the single most energy-intensive form of generative software, in a way that can only work through brute-force mass production and cannot be boycotted or turned off by users, will almost certainly boost a fossil fuel industry still smarting from the unexpected growth of wind, solar, and climate regulations
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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You know what time it is: Family record party time
Family record party night: Fleetwood Mac Rumours
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today!

Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
Cover of Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry by the Capacitor Collective
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Dark forces have descended upon the city of San Francisco
Welcome to the Agentic Enterprise sign at Dreamforce
October 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Stovetop popcorn with nutrional yeast + Coco laptop screening is the ideal combo on this rainy October day
Copper bowl full of popcorn
October 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Peter Thiel says the Antichrist is a Luddite btw www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Screenshot from WashingtonPost: “in the 17th, 18th century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Strangelove, a scientist who did all this sort of evil science,” Thiel said in his September 15 opening talk, according to the recordings. “In the 21st century, the Antichrist is a Luddite who wants to stop all science. It’s someone like Greta or Eliezer,” he said, referring to Thunberg and Eliezer Yudkowsky, a prominent critic of the tech industry’s approach to AI”
October 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Join @datasociety.bsky.social's Climate, Technology, and Justice program+ Kapor Foundation for a webinar on CA data centers in context, connecting data center buildout + policy interventions to histories of environmental racism + resistance

10/9, 12-1:30 PM PT kaporcenter.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
California Data Centers in Context: Histories, Impacts, Policies with Khari Johnson, Masheika Allgood, and Nicole Merino Tsui. Moderated by Cecilia Marrinan and Tamara Kneese. October 9, 12-1:30 pm. Registration link for Zoom is in the post
October 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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They should have gone with this
Darth Vader uni piper guy with the iconic Portland neon sign behind him
October 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Chiweenie break
An elderly red and white chiweenie resting in the sunshine on an orange sofa
September 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Good morning to this gorgeous creature
Giant white dog with a bronze collar sprawled on the subway car floor
September 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Cool news to land to thanks 2025
Screenshot from cnn health that says It’s “too much liquid, too many different things are going into that baby,” Trump said without providing further evidence
September 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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This is me on vacation now, ready for middle aged battle
Me with way more white hair, not smiling and wearing glasses because I forgot my contact solution while sporting a Sontag hat
August 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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This was me on my last vacation 10 years ago, when we drove from Portland to Vancouver. I was so happy then and blissfully ignorant of the many horrors to come!
Me smiling on a sunny Vancouver day at 31 but it feels more like I have aged 31 years since then tbh
August 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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From our intro to the collection, which should be out in a few months 🔮
The black boxed nature of algorithms imparts to their inner workings a sense of mystery, turning programmers into sorcerers. Critics have observed the metaphysical dimensions of predictive technologies such as large language models (LLMs), and where some users see in them the doom of potential extinction, others see the ability to communicate with the dead or achieve digital immortality. In their omnipresence and putative prescience, even more mundane contemporary media technologies take on occult attributes, whether channeled through Alexa’s disembodied voices or Co–Star’s astrological push notifications. Media’s capacity to speak to the spirit realm—through radio static, telegraphic co-presence, or the creepy shadows of Kirlian photography—precede the digital, even as algorithms vector and intensify these occult energies in new ways. Like pre-digital forms of spirit communication and divination, predictive AI presents the possibility of order in chaotic times. This extends to the commercial sector, as digital applications of occult media such as Tarot associate such platforms with the aura of a good life. The occult offers comfort in the face of extractive precarity.
July 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Today capital’s web is shrinking. The mesh connecting microchip producers at Foxconn’s factories in Shenzhen to Genius Bar employees in Berlin to the tech workers at Apple’s Cupertino offices is growing more uniform. While the position of the low-end and high-end worker vis-à-vis capital is vastly different, they increasingly share a downward trajectory In what is a telling sign for the tech sector, computer programmer employment rates in the United States have plummeted to their lowest level since the 1980s. Such pressure has visibly eroded workers’ capacity to negotiate, and not just over wages. In 2018, Google employees were able to halt the company’s collaboration with the US military under Project Maven. Last year, on the other hand, over fifty workers were met with summary dismissal after protesting Google’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza. The aristocracy of the knowledge economy, once able to negotiate its terms, is slowly being dethroned
July 11, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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I don’t know if starting this tonight was such a good idea
Me holding a copy of the 2024 edition of Dead Cities by Mike Davis with a little fox themed bookmark saving my spot
June 27, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Seems like everyone in Oakland is on their way to No Kings today
Homemade “fuck ICE” sign in a shop window
June 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Do you think a depressed person could make this?
Power range plus yo yo and stuffy
June 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Happy book release day to @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social!

If you’re in the Bay Area, I’m moderating a little convo with the esteemed authors of the AI Con at Clio’s this Sunday afternoon
Copy of The AI Con: How to fight big tech’s hype and create the future we want with my blue hand book mark
May 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Something so comforting about 1980s photos of my mom. Familiar brands, the lighting in our tiny apartment, and baby me
A dark haired smiling woman with painted nails looking at a baby in a chair with a kitchenette visible A small dark haired woman holding a bang with a box of Grape-Nuts and Entenmenn’s baked goods on the small vintage fridge in the background
May 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Congrats to @nassimparvin.bsky.social and Neda Atanasoski on their new @dukepress.bsky.social book, Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen

Excited to finally have my little piece about pregnancy tracking apps and histories of DIY feminist care out in the world
Cover of Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen Chapter 8: Tracking for Two: Surveillance and Self-Care in Pregnancy Apps
May 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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This is exactly it. Silicon Valley preppers + the delusional architects of AI addled techno fascism aren’t denying climate change, they’re remaking society to save themselves while pushing for speculative energy futures where they fully control the earth’s resources www.thenation.com/article/envi...
Screenshot from the Nation: “Many of the people who are building bugout bunkers for the impending civilizational collapse are the same people allowing, if not bankrolling, the destruction of public institutions and democratic forms of the rule of law. Because when the sea levels rise, when people are displaced by climate injustice, we can either choose the path of justice and solidarity for all or we can choose the path of death and destruction for most, and security for a few, and they are trying their hardest to force society onto the path of the latter”
May 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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This tracks
3 card tarot spread with The Lovers in the past position, 2 of Wands in the present, and The Hermit in the future position
May 8, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Damn, @kellypendergrast.bsky.social. Do the WorldCoin Orb as evil prophetic object next

dilettantearmy.com/articles/gol...
Screenshot of text: “But the golden pager isn’t that kind of simple espionage story. Instead, the omen portended by the gift of the golden pager is inextricably tied to its physical form and mode of circulation: a piece of good-enough propaganda professing the domination of pager-time over tree-time, deposited in the heart of empire. If you listen closely (to history, at least), the arrival of the wooden object sounds less like the shock of the new and more like a return, a looping back, a boomerang.”
May 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM